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Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
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Friedrich Durrenmatt
Age: 69 †
Born: 1921
Born: January 5
Died: 1990
Died: December 14
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P'ŭridŭrihi Dwirenmat'ŭ
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So then learn to conquer your fear. This is the only art we have to master nowadays: to look at things without fear, and to fearlessly do right.
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Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change the world again.
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He who confronts the paradoxical exposes himself to reality.
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Humans need justice in the here and now and grace in the thereafter. Justice in the here and now is possible only without freedom,and grace in the thereafter only through the freedom of God.
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The content of physics is the concern of physicists, its effect the concern of all men.
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Our science has become terrible, our research dangerous, our findings deadly. We physicists have to make peace with reality. Reality is not as strong as we are. We will ruin reality.
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Then the American flag was saluted. In general, in the United States people always salute the American flag.
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A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder.
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The difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit murder.
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Who sows fear, reaps weapons.
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Politics at all times lead to bloody wars, and not only politics, but also religions as well as social and economic systems of alltimes are spattered with blood. Invariably the big ones devoured the little ones, and the little ones the tiny ones.
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